Improvement in cigar-tips



JONAS CLARK. OIF LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS Letters Patent No. 92,423-,(lated July 13, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN CIGARTIPS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

To lall whom it may concern:

' Be. it known that I, JONAS CLARK, of Lowell, in the county ofMiddlesex, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and valuableImprovement in Gigar- Tips; and I do hereby declare that the followingris a full, clear, and exact description of tlr'e construction andoperation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings,making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures ofreference marked thereon.

Figure 1, of the drawings, is a longitudinal view oi' my invention, withthe fiat surface of the tip presenting. Figure 2 is the same view, withthe edge of the tip presenting.

Figures 3 and 4 are details. v My invention relates to the manufactureof and It consists mainly in constructing, with the cigar, a mouth-pieceor tip of paper and composition of a novel/ cigars 5 and usefulcharacter. c

In the drawings, the body of the cigar is represente. bythe letter A,and the paper and composition-tip by the letter C.-

The cigar is constructed in the usual manner, except that the small endis not'twisted and pointed. In the vplace and stead of such twisting andpointing, I construct and aflix the mouth-piece or tip O as shown.

M'y cigar-tips are constructed of paper covered with" gum-shellac, andgrained, and the centre thereof is filled with a composition combinedsubstantially of the bllowing ingredients, and according'to theibllmving liormula, namely; Y

I take of ginnnd plaster of laris, or gypsum, three parts, and of wheatiiour one part, and mix them to a stili' dough, usingr therefor asuitable quantify of cold water. This composition is passed into thepaper forming the outside ofthe tip, properly perforated, and thoroughlydried. When this is done, the Jrip of paper 'and composition is attaehedto the cigar, by means of gmn-shellac, andthe cigar is ready for boxing,sale, and consumption.

Glue may be used to some extent in the above-named lnamu'aeture.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure /by Letters Patent,is*- The cigar-tip herein descr-ilwd, constructed in `the manner and ofthe materials substantially as specified."

In testimony that I 'claim the above, I have hereunto subscribed myname, in the presence ol' two witnesses.

)NAS CLARK. \Vitnesses:

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